Pjesma za izbeglice event

Photograph of the audience at an event that was titled Pjesma za izbeglice (A Poem for Refugees), which took place on World Poetry Day, 21 March, in 2016 in...
Lyrikline event

Photograph of an event that was organised by the Croatian Centre in collaboration with Lyrikline, a online platform for sharing international poetry and literature. This event took place in...
Pjesma za izbeglice poster

Poster advertising an event titled Pjesma za izbeglice (A Poem for Refugees), which took place on World Poetry Day, 21 March, in 2016 in Zagreb. This literary event, which...
Dubrovnik Congress memorial stone

Photograph of a memorial stone and plaque that was created to mark the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, Croatia, 1993. This Congress, which took place on 19-24 April...
Vlado Gotovac

Photograph of Vlado Gotovac, member of the Croatian Centre, on the left, and Alexandre Blokh, international secretary of PEN International (1981-98), on the right, at a conference held during...
Slobodan Novak and Vlado Gotovac

Photograph of Slobodan Novak, on the left, president of the Croatian Centre (1990-2000), speaking with Vlado Gotovac, in the centre, poet, activist and member of the Croatian Centre, and...
PEN members arriving at Hvar

Photograph of PEN members disembarking a ship to attend the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which took place from 19-24 April and was titled Place and Destiny....
Congress in the Marin Držić Theatre

Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik. This event was held during the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which...
György Konrád in Venice

Photograph of György Konrád, president of PEN International (1990-93), waiting in Venice to board a ship transporting PEN members to the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which...
György Konrád meeting Franjo Tuđman

Photograph of György Konrád, on the left, president of PEN International (1990-93), meeting FranjoTuđman, on the right, President of Croatia (1990-99). This photo was taken by Damil Kalogjera at...
Onstage at the 59th Congress

Photograph of PEN members and associates on stage at the Marin Držić Theatre in Dubrovnik. This event took place as part of the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik,...
Planting olive trees

Photograph of olive trees being planted by PEN members to mark the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, which took place on 19-24 April and was titled Place...
The 59th Congress

Photograph of all the PEN members and associates who attended the 59th PEN International Congress in Hvar/Dubrovnik, 1993, gathering on steps in Gundulićeva Poljana - the historical centre of...
Poster for the Alfabetos series

Poster created by the Colombian Centre promoting three volumes of a book series created by fifty Colombian writers and edited by Carlos Vásquez Zawadzki, president of the Colombian Centre...
Concert on Lokrum Island

Photograph of musicians sitting beside a harpsichord on Lokrum Island, near Dubrovnik. This instrument was shipped onto the island for a concert that took place on 22 April 1993,...
Nuevas Voces Literarias competition announced at the Hay Festival

Copy of an article titled "Hay PEN en el Hay," in El Universal by Sara Marcela Bozzi. This article reports on the Colombian Centre's participation in the annually celebrated...
Interview with Carlos Vásquez-Zawadzki

Copy (incomplete) of Andrés Pinzón Sinuco, "El PEN Colombia de escritores busca jóvenes talentos," El Universal, 1 Febuary 2015. In this article the Colombian journalist Andrés Pinzón Sinuco interviews...
Article announcing Tertulia Literaria Baldomero Sanín Cano

Copy of Redacción Cultural, "PEN Colombia de escritores presenta libros," El Universal, 24 May 2013. This article announces Tertulia Literaria Baldomero Sanín Cano, a literary event that took place...
Alfabetos Ensayísticos and Alfabetos Narrativos

Front covers of two volumes of Vásquez-Zawadzki, Carlos, ed. Alfabetos Narrativos/Ensayísticos. Bogotá: Caza de libros and Pen International/Colombia, 2013. These books were edited by Carlos Vásquez-Zawadzki, president of the...
Qiu Xinye

Photograph of Qiu Xinye, member of the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre, speaking to an audience at a launch of Jiong Xie's new book. The book being launched was: Xie,...
Launch of Thirteen Leaves

Photograph of attendees at the launch of Xie Jiong's new book: Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. This event was...
Writing workshop

Photograph of group of PEN members and associates at a poetry workshop and seminar that was co-organised by the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre and the New York Poetry division...
Xie Jiong

Photograph of Xie Jiong, member of the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre, presenting her new book: Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform,...
Cai Tianxin's book launch

Photograph of a musical performance which took place at a book launch for a new work by the Chinese writer and university professor Cai Tianxin. This event was organised...
Event in Qiao Bao newspaper

Copy of an article published in the New York based Chinese-language newspaper Qiao Bao (The China Press) on 29 July 2018, f. 1. The article reports on a poetry...
Poetry seminar

Photograph of group of PEN members and associates at a poetry workshop and seminar that was co-organised by the Chinese Writers Abroad Centre and the New York Poetry division...
Wang Yu's birthday celebrations

Photograph of the audience seated at Wang Yu's 80th birthday celebrations, at which Yu, who can be seen seated at the very front, was awarded a lifetime achievement award....
Thirteen Leaves book launch

Photograph of attendees at book launch for Xie, Jiong. Thirteen Leaves. Translated by Sam Perkins. New York: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. The author Xie Jiong can be seen...
Mu Xin commemoration

Collage of photographs of Chinese Writers Abroad Centre members and associates who attended an event held to commemorate the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin, who died in 2011. This...
Members of the Board

Photograph of a meeting between the Chilean Centre's Board that was held in Santiago, in 2020.
Wang Yu receiving award

Photograph of celebrated Chinese writer and poet Wang Yu, on the left, receiving a lifetime achievement award at her 80th birthday celebrations, which took place in Long Island, New...
"Mea Culpa" statement

Statement issued by the Chilean Centre in April 2016 titled 'Centro PEN Chile: Declaración del Directorio', f. 1. This statement from the Chilean Centre's Board reaffirms that the Centre's...
Invitation to a poetry recital

Invitation to a poetry recital that was organised by the Chilean Centre and held at Hotel Neruda in Santiago, on 20 July 2017.
81st Anniversary

Report titled 'Un Feliz Aniversario: 81 Años de Centro PEN Chile', which was created by the Chilean Centre in 2016, ff. 4. This report was issued to celebrate the...
Chilean Centre logo

Logo used by the Chilean Centre. The logo's design, featuring a book and quill, uses the year that PEN International was established - 1921.
Latin American Centre members

Photograph of PEN members and associates at a meeting between the Latin American Centres that was held in Buenos Aires in April 2019. Among them are, from left to...
Literatura en vivo invitation

Invitation to a poetry recital organised by the Chilean Centre, which took place at the Centro Cultural de España in Santiago on 3 November 2016. The title of this...
President Emeritus L'Huillier Christie

Certificate presented to Aileen L'Huillier Christie upon becoming president emeritus of the Chilean Centre in 2017. This certificate is signed by Jorge Ragal, president of the Chilean Centre (2016-21),...
Chilean Centre statutes

Chilean Centre's statutes, 2016, ff. 16. The Chilean Centre was first established in Santiago on 29 November 1936 but became dormant in 1973 after a coup d'état on 11...
Photographs of Neruda in India

Photograph of Chilean Centre members at an event that took place in Santiago in 2018. In 2018 Ramón Hernández, second from the right, member of the Chilean Centre and...
Ragal's letter to El Mercurio

Press cutting of a letter sent into editor of the Santiago based newspaper El Mercurio by Jorge Ragal Galdames, president of the Chilean Centre (2016-21). In the letter, which...
Día Nacional del Libro 2018

Invitation from the Chilean Centre inviting Chilean writers to celebrate Día Nacional del Libro with them on 29 November 2018. This literary event was held in Santiago and focused...
Protest in Santiago, 2017

Poster created to advertise a demonstration that was organised by the Chilean Centre and staged at Plaza de la Cultura in Santiago on 7 November 2017. This protest, titled...
International Day of Non-Violence 2018

Poster for a poetry event that was organised by the Chilean Centre and titled Jornada de Poesía por la Paz, which took place at the Centro Cultural de España...
Chechen Writers Centre booklet

Photographs of a copy of a booklet containing reports and articles contributed by various writers based in Norway, including Kjell Olaf Jensen, president of the Norwegian Centre (1997-2007), and...
Commemorating Anna Politkovskaya

Flyer for an event organised by The Nobel Peace Centre in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre in order to honour, commemorate and discuss the life and work of the...
Musa Mutaev and Bernt Hauge

Photograph of writers at a literary conference that was most likely held in 2009 in Trondheim. Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), can be...
Literary event in Trondheim

Photograph of participants at a literary event that was held in Trondheim. From left to right are: the French poet Heda Bataeva; Mars Huke, member of the Norwegian Centre;...
Åsne Seierstad and Musa Mutaev

Copy of Trygve Lundemo, "Tsjetsjenia er fortsatt ikke trygt," Adresseavisen, 30 May 2008: 2-3. This article, whose title translates as "Chechnya is still not safe", describes an interview that...
Musa Mutaev at Fortellerfestivalen

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the left, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), onstage with the musician Øyvind Engen, in the centre, and the Norwegian artist...
Kosmorama Festival

Photograph of members and associates from the Chechen Writers Centre meeting in April at the 2007 edition of Kosmorama, an International Film Festival that is held annually in Trondheim....
Literary evening with Musa Mutaev

Poster advertising the cultural programme of an international conference titled Freedom of Expression: Expressions from Chechnya and Caucasus, which took place in Trondheim on 1-4 June 2005. The cultural...
Litterær Kro 2004, Exile

Poster advertising a literary event titled Litterær Kro 2004: Exil (Literary Inn 2004: Exile), which took place on 5 October 2004 at the Scapa Bar in Trondheim. Guest artists...
Mutaev at the Bjørnsonfestivalen

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the right, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), reciting literature around an open fire at one of the events that took...
"The Forgotten Story" article

Photograph of the front cover of "Den 'glemte' historien," Kultur Meninger, 29 November 2011; photograph of 1 copy of "Roman on den 'glemte' desportasjonan", Kultur Meninger, 29 November 2011....
Mutaev with 2016 PEN Anthology

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), holding a copy of an anthology published by the Korean Centre titled 2016 Anthology of the...
Works by Musa Mutaev

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), with seven of his published works. These books include: 1 copy of Mutaev, Musa. Kuntas Skygge....
Musa Mutaev with Bernt Hauge

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the left, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), with the Norwegian author and philosopher Bernt Hauge. It's likely this photograph was...
Chechen writers and artists

Photograph of Chechen writers and members of the Chechen Writers Centre. From left to right are: Musa Mutaev, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-); Islam Elsanov,...
Apti Bisultanov

Photograph of the Chechen poet, writer, and member of the Chechen Writers Centre Apti Bisultanov reciting poetry at an event that was held in Trondheim.
Strasser and Mutaev

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the right, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2007. Johano Strasser, president of...
Storholmen and Mutaev

Photograph of Musa Mutaev, on the left, founder and president of the Chechen Writers Centre (2006-), and Ingrid Storholmen, on the right, member of the Norwegian Centre. This photograph...
Bjørnsonfestivalen in 2008

Photograph of attendees at an event that took place during the 2008 edition of Bjørnsonfestivalen, an international literary festival that is held annually between August and September in Molde...
Guest writer Bàssem an-Nabrís

Photograph of a panel discussion hosted by the Catalan Centre in collaboration with the International Cities of Refugees Network's (ICORN) Shahrazad 'Stories for Life' project in Barcelona in 2012....
First members of the Catalan Centre

Photograph of PEN members with the first members of the Catalan Centre. The Catalan Centre was established in Barcelona on 19 April 1923, and this photograph was most likely...
Event with Anna Politkovskaya

Flyer for an event titled Reporter to Txetxènia: com ser testimoni d'una guerra bruta (A Reporter in Chechnya: how to bear witness in a dirty war), which was held...
ICORN meeting for Shahrazad project

Photograph of a meeting held by the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) and the Catalan Centre in Barcelona in 2013. Barcelona has been a member of ICORN since...
Declaració Universal dels Drets Lingüístics

Front cover of 'Declaració Universal dels Drets Lingüístics', a declaration that was issued and created by the Institut d’Edicions de la Diputació de Barcelona in April 1998. This declaration...
Press conference in Barcelona

Photograph of PEN members at a press conference held in Barcelona on 21 January 2019. From left to right are: Àngels Gregori, president of the Catalan Centre (2018-), Jennifer...
All editions of Catalan Writing

Photograph of volumes 1 to 10 of Catalan Writing, an editorial published by the Catalan Centre in collaboration with the Barcelona based Institut Ramon Llull. This editorial championed Catalan...
Anti-Terrorism, Writers and Freedom of Expression

Photograph of three copies of a report issued by PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee titled Anti-Terrorism, Writers and Freedom of Expression. This report, produced in December 2003, was...
Visat ditigal magazine

Screenshot of Visat online, the Catalan Centre's literature and translation e-magazine, which was launched in 2004 to promote Catalan language and culture. This image shows the layout of the...
Event with Anna Politkovskaya

Photograph of the Russian journalist, writer, and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya, end on the right, participating in a panel event that was organised by the Catalan Centre and...
Final edition of Catalan Writing

Front cover of Catalan Writing, Vol. 10 (November 2011). This is the cover of the final edition of Catalan Writing, an editorial published by the Catalan Centre in collaboration...
Speaker at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights

Photograph of a speaker addressing an audience at the 1996 World Conference on Linguistic Rights. This conference was organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee and Escarré...
Girona Manifesto on Linguistic Rights

Photograph of members at a meeting organised by the Catalan Centre and PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place on 11-13 May 2011 in Girona. At...
TLRC meeting in Barcelona

Photograph of a meeting organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee, which took place on 21-23 April 2015 in Barcelona. At this meeting the Quebec Declaration on...
World Conference on Linguistic Rights

Photograph of speakers at the World Conference on Linguistic Rights, which was organised by PEN International's Translation and Linguistic Rights Committee and Escarré International Center for Ethnic Minorities and...
PEN International in La Vanguardia

Copy (fragmentary) of "El XIII Congreso internacional de Pen Clubs: la sesion inaugral - Discursos de Pompeo Fabra y H.G. Wells," La Vanguardia, 22 May 1935: 7-8. This article...
Members at the 13th Congress

Photograph of PEN members and associates at the 13th PEN International Congress in Barcelona, 1935. Among them are: Clementina Arderiu, second from the left of the first row; Carles...
1978 International Conference

Photograph of panel speakers at the Catalan Centre's International Conference, which took place at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona in October 1978. Among them, from left to right,...
Table settings at 1st Congress

Illustrated table settings for the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International and the earliest established Centres took place in London on 1 May...
Hosting the 1935 Congress in Barcelona

Telegram from the Catalan Centre to the English Centre, , 18 May 1933, f. 1. In this telegram the Catalan Centre puts forward a proposition from their member Josep...
1st International Congress

Photograph of Catalan Centre members seated at a table during the 1st PEN International Congress, London, 1-3 May 1923. This inaugural dinner of PEN International (known at the time...
The Eli Langer case

Folder of documents concerning the Eli Langer case dated between 1993 and 1995, ff. 24. In 1993 the Canadian artist Eli Langer held an exhibition at the Mercer Union...
Recalling the Centre's early years

Copy of "Margaret Atwood, Eugene Benson & Graeme Gibson remember the early days of PEN Canada," The Canadian Centre: P.E.N. International, (Summer 1996): 3-5. This article from the Canadian...
Fearful Silence book

Copy of Rankin, Evan and de Caires, Brendan. Fearful Silence: the chill on India's public sphere. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2016. This book investigates the...
Journalism in the shadow of Impunity book

Copy of Owens, Kaitlin. Honduras: Journalism in the shadow of Impunity. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, PEN International, 2014. This book was the result of joint research conducted...
Imposing Silence book

Copy of Tang, Amy; Rankin, Evan; de Caires, Brendan; and Beesley, Drew. Imposing Silence: The use of India's Laws to suppress Free Speech. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto,...
Reports on the 54th PEN International Congress

Copy of Callwood, June. ed.; Gibson, Graeme. "Newsletter," The Canadian Centre: P.E.N. International, no. 27 (November 1989): 4-6. This newsletter from the Canadian Centre contains two reports on...
Writing course poster

Poster promoting a writing course that was organised by the Cambodian Centre and held on 15 May 2016, most likely in Phnom Penh, where the Centre is based.
Cambodian writers workshop

Photograph of a group of Cambodian writers who took part in a writing workshop organised by the Cambodian Centre in 2016 that was most likely held in Phnom Penh,...
Corruption, Impunity, Silence book

Copy of Gibbons, Cara and Spratt, Beth. Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists. Toronto: PEN Canada, University of Toronto, 2011. This book examines the life-threatening circumstances journalists...
Civil Society Programme presentation

Photograph of Heng Sreang, second on the right, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), with writers who took part in a young writers training workshop organised by the Cambodian...
Creative Writing workshop

Photograph of a group of writers who took part in a young writers training workshop that was organised by the Cambodian Centre. This workshop was organised as part of...
Prize-winning writers

Photograph of writers holding certificates awarded for their short stories and poems, which won prizes at a competition that was held by the Cambodian Centre on 14 June 2015,...
Heng Sreang with training course participant

Photograph of Heng Sreang, on the right, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), with a writer who took part in a young writers training workshop. This workshop was organised...
Young writers workshop

Photograph of writers taking part in a young writers training workshop. This workshop was organised by the Cambodian Centre and took place on 26 June 2016, most likely in...
Gathering of writers

Flyer advertising a literary event that was organised by the Cambodian Centre in collabration with the cultural centre Slab Paka. This event brought writers of all ages together to...
Student being awarded certificate

Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Training course certificate

Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Writing competition poster

Poster advertising short story and poetry writing competitions that were organised and held by the Cambodian Centre in 2015 and 2016.
Arnold Zable at writing workshop

Photograph of Melbourne Centre member Arnold Zable speaking at a writer's training course that was organised by the Cambodian Centre and held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh,...
Student receiving training course certificate

Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Training course participant

Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, on the right, and Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian Centre (2010-19), on the left, awarding a certificate to a...
Arnold Zable at training workshop

Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, speaking to writers at the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh, where the...
Arnold Zable and Heng Sreang

Photograph of Arnold Zable, member of the Melbourne Centre, standing on the left, speaking to writers at the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course. Heng Sreang, president of the Cambodian...
Writing workshop classroom

Photograph of students taking part in a writers training course that was organised by the Cambodian Centre and held in 2013, most likely in Phnom Penh, where the Centre...
Writer's training course group

Photograph of the speakers and writers who attended the Cambodian Centre's writer's training course held in 2013, which most likely took place in Phnom Penh, where the Centre is...
Stefan Zweig and Lotte Altmann

Photograph of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig with his second wife, Lotte Altmann. This photograph was taken in 1937, most likely in London, where the couple met. Zweig settled...